Academus

American  

[ak-uh-dee-muhs] / ˌæk əˈdi məs /

noun

1. an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.

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Example Sentences

The tradition among the Athenians was, that one Ecademus, or Academus, founded it in antient times; from whom it received its name.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

This latter plain, with its fine olive-woods reaching down across Academus to the region of the old long walls, is fairly covered with corn and grazing cattle, with plane trees and poplars.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

Horace at the age of twenty-three was, to use his own words, still ‘seeking for the truth among the groves of Academus.’

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

He founded his college in the grove of his old friend Academus, a mile out of Athens on the road to Eleusis.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert

"It is fear, unmingled with reverence, in the minds of many," replied the philosopher of Academus.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis